Battle for the Soul of a Party and Nation
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Want to know what really went on behind the scenes during the 2020 campaigns to take down Trump? Edward-Isaac Dovere is a staff writer for The Atlantic. His new book is: Battle for the Soul Inside-The Democrats' Campaigns To Defeat Trump. He has covered Democratic politics for 15 years, starting in New York, the Obama White House and then across 29 states during the 2020 election cycle. He got the inside and juicy details.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Thank you for joining us on this latest episode of the Bill Press |
| 0:11.3 | pod with an inside look at the wild Democratic primary of 2020. It's all wrapped up in a |
| 0:18.1 | brand new book that'll delight political junkies like you and me. |
| 0:22.2 | It's called Battle for the Soul inside the Democrats campaign to defeat Donald Trump by the |
| 0:28.3 | Atlantic's Edward Isaac Dauver. |
| 0:31.5 | DeVare starts out with a very tough but accurate analysis, I believe, of what went wrong in 2016, |
| 0:40.7 | including what players and what factors should get to blame for Hillary's loss to Donald Trump. Then he moves into the 2020 Democratic |
| 0:47.1 | primary with great insights and some very funny stories about how all the major candidates got |
| 0:54.0 | into the race, how they tried to outmaneuver |
| 0:57.0 | each other to the top of the pack, and how, which almost nobody expected, Joe Biden ended up |
| 1:04.0 | on top of the pile. I've read the book. I loved it, and I know you will too. Battle for the |
| 1:10.8 | soul is hot off the press. It just |
| 1:13.0 | came out a week ago, and we were able to track down Edward Isaac Dover just two days after publication. |
| 1:21.4 | Isaac DeVare, so good to connect with you again, Isaac, and congratulations on the book, |
| 1:26.7 | Battle for the Soul Inside the Democrats |
| 1:29.8 | Campaign to defeat Trump, hot off the press, and now hot off the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:35.8 | How about it? |
| 1:36.8 | It's great. |
| 1:37.8 | Thanks for having me, Bill. |
| 1:38.8 | I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.8 | So I want to ask you about a lot about the book and about what you call the identity crisis |
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